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Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (or simply Dr. Rao, as he is universally known to his students and colleagues) who attended the age of 100 on September 10, 2020, is a living legend in Statistics: His work has influenced not only has influenced the field of statistics, but also has had a profound impact on numerous other areas, such as economics, engineering, agriculture, anthropology, biometry, demography, psychology, geology, and medicine. In this article, along with some of his pioneering work, we trace a few the events of his memorable long life.
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We would like to thank Professor Arijit Choudhuri for his kind invitation to contribute an essay on the occasion of C.R. Rao centenary. We are also thankful to Yufan Leiluo for his comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this essay. All omissions and misreadings are ours.
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Bera, A., Ghosh, P. (2021). Glimpses from the Life and Work of Dr. C.R. Rao: A Living Legend in Statistics. In: Chaudhuri, A., Gupta, S.N., Roychoudhury, R. (eds) A Tribute to the Legend of Professor C. R. Rao. Indian Statistical Institute Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6991-7_7
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